PVI side of the story
The letter from Walkergate Early Years teacher Jenny Parker concerning full-time places for three-year-olds in maintained nurseries in Newcastle (Letters, 8 October) describes one side of a story. The other side is that offering such places is done at the expense, and to the detriment, of the PVI sector.
For some years now, it has been the policy in Stoke-on-Trent to place all three-year-olds in full-time nursery classes in the maintained sector. Consequently, private nurseries have emptied of the very children that provide their sustainability.
Three-year-olds benefit from a staff ratio of 8:1 (13:1 in the maintained sector) and provide the necessary financial surplus that cannot be achieved from the 4:1 and 3:1 ratios for children under three.
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